Mouseover has the real punchline, once again. Although we'd have to first invent cars that are capable of having an opinion on the things bumper stickers say. Either that or have them honk (or not honk) on behalf of their owners.

cephalopod9 wrote:Only on Xkcd can you start a topic involving Hitler and people spend the better part of half a dozen pages arguing about the quality of Operating Systems.

Brickmack wrote:It seems odd to me to see "self driving car" and "fuel" in the same sentence. Electric cars are already sufficiently mature for widespread use, fully autonomous driving is not

So, to your mind, "fuel" requires hadrons?

(Even if you're correct, I think people will continue to refer to charging electric cars as "fueling", much as they refer to pushing buttons on a phone as "dialing".)

"[T]he author has followed the usual practice of contemporary books on graph theory, namely to use words that are similar but not identical to the terms used in other books on graph theory."-- Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol I, 3rd ed.

But then I've never called adding gasoline to a car (truck, lawn mower, bulldozer, whatever) "fueling". It's always "[re]filling", as in "fill 'er up!".

"Fueling" a vehicle might be a non-USAan thing?

I only ever hear "[re]fueling" with respect to aircraft. Probably since we call what they use "jet fuel"... wheeled and tracked vehicles run on "gas" or "diesel" (or "natural gas" or "propane" or whatever; none of them tend to have "fuel" in their name, though.)

averageJon wrote:I'm wondering how self driving cars will react to a "Honk iff you don't honk based on bumper stickers" bumper sticker.

I was thinking of something similar. However, in your case they simply wouldn't honk. If they don't honk they just don't honk at all, regardless of what the sticker says. If they do honk than the sticker is basically telling them not to honk, so they still don't.

I can't really think of a "this statement is false" kind of paradox for the sticker that actually works.

Been quietly lurking for some time, but I had a dream where I was working on autonomous vehicles a week or two ago (really), and in it I said "Just say into here where you want to go, and it will take you somewhere that sounds vaguely like that".

JGeezer wrote:Been quietly lurking for some time, but I had a dream where I was working on autonomous vehicles a week or two ago (really), and in it I said "Just say into here where you want to go, and it will take you somewhere that sounds vaguely like that".

Can you imagine all the drunken navigational errors?

I've heard of someone who was drunk on new years who told the Uber app to bring them to a same or similar street in the next county. When the driver said "Uh, are you sure this is where you want to go?" the rider snapped at him and told him to shut up, do his job and bring her to the place she put down. This repeated a couple times and the driver said "Ok". She passed out and woke up upon arrival. Then she cussed him out and tried to file a complaint but in the end they determined it was not the driver's fault.

The car itself wasn't implicated, but I once had a GPS receiver insist that the shopping center I asked it to direct me to was in the middle of a cotton field.

(Research at a later time: not far from where the actual shopping center is, the same street name continues past a city limit boundary into another city with a different zero point for numbering. GPS decided from the number that the shopping center must be five miles further south in the other city.)

JGeezer wrote:Been quietly lurking for some time, but I had a dream where I was working on autonomous vehicles a week or two ago (really), and in it I said "Just say into here where you want to go, and it will take you somewhere that sounds vaguely like that".